Recently Nupas-Cadmatic signed a major contract with Russian design office OJSC Vympel Ltd. Vympel chose to extend their CAD/CAM with Nupas-Cadmatic in order to cope with increased demand for complex designs and tight schedules . Vympel’s working methods are integrated with the international shipbui
Lamprell, a leading provider of diversified engineering and contracting services to the onshore and offshore oil & gas and renewables industry, announced the successful completion of construction of the wind turbine installation vessel, Windcarrier 2 “Bold Tern”. Having resolved all outstanding comm
Songa Offshore SE announced that Songa Trym has now received its AOC diploma and additional work and client acceptance testing of Songa Trym is now completed. As of today, Songa Trym will be on stand-by rate while Statoil undertakes planned upgrade of the mud system. The rig will thereafter enter in
Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation, an owner and operator of tanker vessels, announced that the Nave Rigel, a new building LR1 product tanker vessel of 74,673 dwt, was delivered on February 13, 2013 from a South Korean shipyard. Nave Rigel has been chartered out to a high quality counterparty f
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), a wholly owned-subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M), has delivered the jackup rig UMW Naga 4 to UMW Oil & Gas Corporation Sdn. Bhd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the UMW Group. It was completed five days ahead of schedule, on budget and with a perfec
Hotchya Marine Design signed a contract with the Ministry of Industry and Trade for the development of the initial design requirements and the conceptual design of Mezhdunarodny, a large research vessel intended for fish stock assessment research in the global ocean. In accordance with the design re
Update on Emma Maersk Incident (Egypt) On 1 February 2013, Emma Maersk, Maersk Line’s largest container vessel, experienced ingress of water into the engine room. The vessel had just commenced its southbound transit through the Suez Canal en route to Asia. The captain decided to terminate the planne
REMONTOWA SHIPBUILDING S.A. has launched the next generation Platform Supply Vessel (PSV), designed for one of the largest ship-owners operating Offshore Support Vessels in the North Sea. Deck area of more than 800 sq. m., 4100 t cargo capacity and speed of 14.3 knots rank this unit among the larg
Installing tidal energy devices is both costly and technically challenging, but a new Dynamic Positioning (DP) flat-top barge could be the answer that the industry has been waiting for. Adding DP capability to a versatile flat-top barge offers a real cost effective tidal energy installation solution
A Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PSNY) engineer improved the process to safely monitor draft conditions of waterborne submarines at the shipyard with a remote controlled safety draft marker, NAVSEA announced Feb. 14. A waterborne submarine’s draft must be constantly monitored to ensure it does not excee
Today, all conditions have been met for the two newbuilding contracts between DFDS and the German shipyard P+S Werften GmbH, Stralsund, concerning the construction of two freight ships (ro-ro). The newbuildings form part of DFDS’ cooperation with the Danish defence, and since 2006 also with the Germ
The 23m Macduff designed tug named ‘Ayten Cebi’ recently completed its sea trials. Built by Torgem in Tuzla, Turkey the vessel ran successful trials, with a free running speed of 11.7 knots and average bollard pull of 35 tonnes the vessel has surpassed her contract conditions. The vessel comes as a
The first of two new Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) ships was officially named Canberra in a traditional Navy ceremony at Williamstown, Victoria on Friday 15 February 2013. The new LHD was named by Mrs. Vickie Coates, wife of the late Rear Admiral Nigel Coates AM, RAN, who served a distinguished care
EXMAR NV announced that together with TEEKAY LNG PARTNERS L.P. they have successfully closed their 50/50 LPG joint-venture. The EXMAR LPG BVBA joint-venture controls 15 owned Midsize Gas Carriers (MGC), out of which 4 are currently under construction at Hyundai Mipo, and one owned Very Large Gas Car
